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title: In AD 938, the Vietnamese lord Ngô Quyền defeated the forces of the… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: In AD 938, the Vietnamese lord Ngô Quyền defeated the forces of the Chinese Southern Han state at Bạch Đằng River and achieved full independence for Vietnam in 939 after a millennium of Chinese domination. Who acts: Vietnamese lord. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependency tree and pr
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# Vietnam, sentence 60

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From Wikipedia, [«Vietnam»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In AD 938, the Vietnamese lord Ngô Quyền defeated the forces of the Chinese Southern Han state at Bạch Đằng River and achieved full independence for Vietnam in 939 after a millennium of Chinese domination.

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**Who acts:** Vietnamese lord · **What happens:** defeat, achieve · **To what, where:** forces, AD, full independence, 939

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vietnam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vietnamese lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Vietnam:60
# text = In AD 938, the Vietnamese lord Ngô Quyền defeated the forces of the Chinese Southern Han state at Bạch Đằng River and achieved full independence for Vietnam in 939 after a millennium of Chinese domination.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	938	938	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Ngô	Ngô	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Quyền	Quyền	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Bạch	Bạch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	Đằng	Đằng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	939	939	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	domination	domination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defeat** | past | the Vietnamese lord | the forces of the Chinese Southern Han state at Bạch Đằng River |  | AD |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **achieve** | past | the Vietnamese lord *not said here* | full independence |  | 939 | after a millennium of Chinese domination | for Vietnam | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Vietnam», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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